Mars Festival - Death Valley

Death Valley National Park and NASA co-sponsored a two day event of scientific presentations and field trips dubbed the "Mars Festival". The events were designed to highlight the research that NASA scientists, and other planetary scientists have done in the valley, using it as a Mars analog site to study features similar to the Martian surface, and design experimental packages to detect life living in an extreme environment. Here are a few photos taken at two sites, Mars hill and Ubehebe Crater. March, 2012.